Why would it bode badly? Investment firms usually buy to make money. Unless Eq is a money loser and if it is it should be shut down, companies don't operate as charity's. But I don't think it is and I think its fairly stable player base would at least keep it viable for at least a few years. At which time if it's profitable to sell it to someone who wants to operate it that could be one possible turn out. It may actually turn out to be a great thing, your not under the money loser's Sony parent company anymore, and they've lately been more along the lines to just shut a game down. I could be wrong, we could all get a email tomorrow stating the end of the world, but who knows As long as they keep taking my 89 dollars a year to let me play a game every hour of the day if I wanted to i'll be happy, heck i'll even buy a expansion if they put one out!

And don't you people read your own games boards or fb Is an official statement there that was posted early today.

Smedley went to the new company and there is their new HZ1Z coming out. I think EQ will be around for awhile. PC gaming is not as dead as some people think. This may even be good as the devs may get more freedom(money) to do more things.

Roshen posted that they were still working on the next EQ expansion so we should be good for at least another year or two. This could end up being a good thing if they give more resources to EQ than SOE was.

my brother in law plays next . he was here around christmas and said they had just introduced combat . he played a lil bit and it looked pretty cool. it seems that they are having players build everything in the world. so depending on how many play that might take forever